Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit and Joe Acaba of
NASA and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers opened the hatch to SpaceX’s
Dragon cargo craft and entered the vehicle May 26, one day after the world’s first commercial cargo
spacecraft was berthed to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module. Dragon will remain berthed
to Harmony until May 31, enabling the crew to unload supplies for the station’s residents before it is
re-grappled and released to return to Earth for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean
off the coast of southern California.